A Pair Of Tickets

10/03/05

A Pair of Tickets

This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She

is however Chinese, and refuses to believe she is.

This story is both a mystery and a suspense with in a way a tragically happy ending. By

the end of this paper I will show how I come to this conclusion. First I will tell the story in my

own words in a shorter version.

The lady telling this story is in her thirties. Both her parents are from China, her mother

left China in 1944. Her mother was married to another man at the time and had two twin

daughters. She was trying to get to her husband who was stationed in another town in the

military. She had been walking for three days trying to get a ride but had no luck. First she left behind her two suitcases and then the food she was carrying. After that she tried very hard to

either get a ride or to have someone take her girls for her. She was forced however to leave the

girls on the side of the road. She had to do this because she was becoming sick and she feared not

only for own life but also the lives of her daughters. She hoped that someone would come by

them alone and take them in. This was all her mother had told her about her two older sisters.

For years her mother had been trying to find her lost daughters, but had no luck. Even offering a

reward was no help. Her fondest dream was to find the girls, return to China and join both

families and make them into one happy loving one.

Unfortainitly, due to a suden brain aneurism her mother passed away before she could

forfill her dream. Three months after her mom died, her father got a letter in the mail. It was

addressed to her mother and it was from China. The girls had finally found their mother and

wanted to meet her. This letter made her father cry because here these two girls are, writing to his

wife and calling her mama.

The letter was given to her aunt and he asked her to write back to the girls and as nicely

as it could be done, tell them that their mother had passed away but that she never gave up

looking for them. Instead the aunt took it upon herself to write to them pretending to be their

mother. Later a second letter was written telling them the truth and that they have a sister.

The sister was worried that the twins would be mad at her because she was able to grow up with

and know their mother. She however took it upon herself to set out to finish her mothers dream.

To go to China and reunite both families.

With her father beside her they set out on the long journey to China. Fist stopping so that

her father could see an aunt that he has not seen since he was ten. They stayed to visit with her

and her family for only one night before they continued on to meet her sisters. Before making

this trip she had written to them herself and sent them a picture so they would know what she

looked like. The night before they left to meet them she asked her father what he knew about

why her mom had to leave the two babies on the side of the road alone, for just anyone to take.

He told her a little about what she already knew, how she had been walking for three days.

Trying with no luck to get a ride and or to find someone that would take the babies to be safe.

In the end she made the decision to leave the girls and hope that some one saw them and would

take them. She wrote a note on the back of a couple pictures that she pined to the girls. The note gave their names, an address that they could be taken to and told why she had to leave them

behind. She also hid inside their clothing some money and jewelry to help pay for their care. That

was the last time she ever saw her twins.

She didn't know how long she walked or even what direction she was going in. All she

knew was that she was getting sicker. She walked and waled until she colapsed. The next thing

she remembers was waking up in the back of a truck and seeing an American woman looking at

her. She later found out that her husband that she tried so hard to get to had died a couple weeks

earlier. So now she not only lost her home, and children but also her husband.

The couple who eventually did find and take in the twins were a couple of peasants. They

lived in a